Top 15 WinRAR Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You can try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads. After the trial period expires, the program will start to nag you to buy it every time you open up a zip, rar, etc. You can still use the software, but with the nag screen.

1. TUGZip

TUGZip TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.......

2. IZArc

IZArc IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ,......

3. Archiv

Archiv With Archiv your can create archives in different popular formats and extract them easily. Because of using native disk utilities of Mac, Archiv is very reliable and secure! Password protection make your archives also safe. Convenient Drag & Drop support! CREATING- 7z, Zip, Tar, Bzip2, Gzip- Dmg, Iso, UdfEXTRACTING- 7z,......

4. KGB Archiver

KGB Archiver KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption......

5. Bandizip

Bandizip Bandizip is 100% free Archiver for home and office.It handles the most popular compression formats, including Zip, 7z, and Rar files for free!.Bandizip supports for compression and extraction:Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, 7Z(7z.001), LZH, ISO, EXE(e01).And extraction only:RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EGG, GZ,......

6. RAR File Open Knife

RAR File Open Knife RAR File Open Knife is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files (Win XP, Win 2000, Win 98, Win NT, Win ME, Win Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Win Server 2008 etc.)......

7. FreeArc

FreeArc FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove repetitions from text.......

8. 7-Zip

7-Zip 7-Zip uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats. The program can be used from a command-line interface, graphical user interface, or with a window-based shell integration. 7-Zip began in 1999 and is developed by Igor Pavlov. The cross-platform version of the command-line......

9. PeaZip

PeaZip PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open......

10. Zipeg

Zipeg Zipeg is a universal open source archive extractor that supports ZIP and RAR (among other archiving formats). With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside. It is incapable of compressing files, although it is able to extract compressed ones. Zipeg is built on top......

11. StuffIt

StuffIt StuffIt is the right tool for people who just need very basic compression and expansion features. StuffIt has some great features that help you manage your workflow quickly and efficiently. Create both Zip and StuffIt X archives with or without encryption, and open compressed or encoded email attachments and downloads......

12. Hamster Free ZIP Archiver

Hamster Free ZIP Archiver Hamster Free ZIP Archiver is a New Zip Tool for compression & encryption with improved Very Fast Zip algorithm. 100% free of charge for home and office - with no restrictions! Supports all popular compression formats ZIP, Rar, 7z etc. Special functions (preset) for e-mail, RapidShare, CD, DVD, and......

13. B1 Free Archiver

B1 Free Archiver [Be careful during the installation: Forum ]B1 Free Archiver is a free multi-platform universal archiver. Currently it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android; moreover B1 Online Archiver allows you to uncompress .b1, zip, rar or .7z archive from your computer directly online. B1 Archiver supports most popular......

14. File Roller

File Roller File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.......

15. Ultimate Extract and Recover

Ultimate Extract and Recover Ultimate Extract and Recover is an application that batch extracts and verifies RAR and ZIP archives without the user's attention. Traverses nested sub directories,supports Unicode file names,directories and passwords. Can batch extract password protected RAR and ZIP archives, by using a password list. If it finds the password, it extracts......